There are DUI law cases everyday, but one that caught a DUI effort from a California woman made its inevitable way to YouTube, just before the woman was charged with DUI offences after running over her husband’s mobility scooter. The clip came courtesy of her neighbour, who saw the woman pushing her husband off the […]
Patrick Lamb is a founding member of Valorem Law Group, a litigation firm representing business interests. Valorem helps clients solve their business disputes and cope with pressures to reduce legal spend using nontraditional approaches, including use of nonhourly fee structures, coordination with LPOs or contract lawyers, joint-venturing with other firms and implementation of project management
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Using humor to teach law is something prescribed as one of the best forms of medicine by a law professor who believes using the “pedagogical power of laughter” can be a hugely underestimated tool when it comes to teaching. Professor Reed, a clinical law professor at Northwestern University Law School believes humor, properly used, can
Todd Glickfield is a feisty, successful attorney from Marion Indiana. One issue that was before the Court recently however was not recorded in the brief: he wasn’t wearing socks and the Judge ordered him to. Glickfield, as is his way when he believes in an issue, resisted. He is, according to one report, the Matthew
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Rick Perry is under some pressure right now, so who best to turn to when lawyering-up but a tough-ass like Tony Buzbee, one of the hardest, toughest Texas lawyers around. Here’s what his own website says: There are thousands of nameless, faceless attorneys who fill the top floors of many of the office buildings in
The ever-shifting sands of the law profession show lawyers and the way they practice continue to change, often radically. New research undertaken by law recruiters Robert Half took a look at the current changes in their “Future Law Office” program and found mounting client service pressure, a rise in general counsel importance, talent wars and
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The use of backoffice services by law firms has been a developing trend for some years, but now Baker & McKenzie are creating up to 250 jobs in Belfast, welcome news for the struggling city, in a move that will create a “global services centre” (Read: lower cost support services). The move by the global
“The Rule of Law”. It has a ring to it, doesn’t it? It’s the foundation of so much we hold so dear. And yet, more than ever, the Rule of Law appears to be somewhat illusory in America, as if it is something that only the privileged and rich can enjoy. Can this be so?
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“Breaking Bad” was good for lawyers – at least for lawyer marketing. How can any series with a character like Saul (“Better Call Saul”) Goodman be anything other than one that inpires or repels lawyers as to how or why they should market themselves. The spin-off series from “Breaking Bad”, this week’s Emmy-winning drama, is
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Suing the President of the United States is not something that any lawyer gets to do any day, but the one who has drawn the short straw for the House Republicans is David Rivkin, who is to take up the cudgels for the Republicans in their claim that the president has overreached. Speaker John Boehner
